Improved tub washing-machine



. exact description of the same, reference being 1 -ber is raised up andswung back to get at the interior ofthe tub.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN BANNER, or CANTON, OHIO.

IMPROVED TUB wAsHlNe-MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. I 1,165, datedSeptember 13,1864.

To all 072.01111 it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN DANNER, of Canton, in the county of Stark andState of Ohio, have invented a new and uset'ul Improvement 'i TubVashing-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and

had to the accompanying drawings, makinga p lrt of this specification,in which- Figure 1 represents an elevation ot one of t the tubs, showingin dotted lines one of the i hinged sections of the cover as raised up.Fig. 2 represents a vertical section through the tub, and showing theposition of the hinged sections of t-he cover when the rub- Similarletters of reference, whele they occur in the separate figures, denotelike parts in bot-h drawings.

My invention consists in forming the cover oi' the tub in threesections, two ot' which are hinged to each other and to the third one,which is permanent, so that one section may be raised to arrange theclothes in the tub anl the two sections'thrown back so as to carry backwith them the rubber, its shaft, and crank, that the whole interior ot'the tub may be cleared. f

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use Iny invention, Iwill proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings.

A represents a tub ot' any ordinary construction, and having cncsection, B, ot' its cover permanently fastened thereto, and by permanentI mean pernmnent during the Ope ation of the machine, tor it may beremovaIle and replaceable by pins, hooks, or Otherwise if so preferred.Io the section B is hinged, as at a, the middle section, C, whichsupports and steadies and Inakes a bearing for the shaft D, that carriesat its one end a crank, E, and at its opposite end a rubbingboard, F, ofany suitable style, shape, or pattern, and to the section C is hinged,asat c,

the third section, G, said sections B C G, when shut down horizontally,forming the entire cover to the tub.

In washing, the clothes often ride upand require straightening` out. Toget at the interior of the tub for this purpose, thelhinged section G isswung back, as shown in dotted lines Fig. 1, which enables the operatorto gain access to the clothes. When the clothes are washed and are to beremoved, when the whole interior of the tub must be cleared ot' therubber and its shaft. For this purpose the rubber and its shaft may beraised up Vertr cally, the section G thrown back, and then the sectionO, with the rubber, shaft, Ste., also thrown back, and when this is donethe several parts will be in the position shown in Fig. 2, and theentire tub clear and easy of access. It' it is desirable to do so,gearing may be introduced between the crank E and the rubberF to givethe latter more. speed, but this will not prevent the free rising upkOt' the rubber and the swinging back of the sections and the rubber, asabove shown and described.

l am aware that many rubbers have been so made as to swing out oi' thetub; but I am not aware that a cover and rubber have been so swung backas I propose.

Having thus fully described the construction and operation of Inyinvention, what I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is-

Incombination withaI tub washingmachine, a cover for supporting,guiding, or admitting the rubbing board stem or shaft to pass through,said cover being in three sections, two ot' which shall be hinged andthe third rigid, and so that the rubbing-board Willswing upward andbackward with one of said sections, substantially as and for the purposedescribed.

' JOHN BANNER. Witnesses:

A. B. S'IOUGHTON, XAVER FENDRICK.

